Daisies Quotes

• Where flowers bloom so does hope.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Hope, Spring, Flower

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• Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green.

  Christina Rossetti

  Inspirational, Nature, Stars

  Christina Georgina Rossetti, “Where Innocent Bright-Eyed Daisies Are”

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• Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

  Drew Barrymore

  Sunshine, Happy Sunshine

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• You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

  Kevin Costner

  Live Life, Granted, Express Yourself

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• They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.

  Anne Sexton

  Flower, Vulnerable, Innocent

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.374, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spring, Flower, Simple

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• If I had my life to live over, I'd pick more daisies.

  Don Herold

  Picks, Ifs

  Title of article, Reader's Digest, Oct. 1953

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• There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.

  James Montgomery

  Flower, Eye, Weather

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.315

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• It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Nice, Thinking, Losing

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spring, Flower, Rose

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• In nature everything is valuable, everything has its place. The rose, the daisy, the lark, the squirrel, each is different but beautiful. Each has its own expression. Each flower its' own fragrance. Each bird its' own song. So you too have your own unique melody.

  Diane Dreher

  Beautiful, Song, Flower

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• Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Beautiful, Glasses, Sight

  H. Jackson Brown Jr., Rochelle Pennington (2001). “Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well”, p.102, Harper Collins

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• Stars are the daisies that begem
  The blue fields of the sky.

  David Macbeth Moir

  Stars, Blue, Sky

  David Macbeth Moir (1852). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir”, p.157

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• Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

  Oscar Wilde

  Snow, Speak, Grows

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.5, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I got daisies
  In green pastures.

  Ira Gershwin

  Green, Green Pastures, Pastures

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• Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Flower, Larks

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.356

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• The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

  William Wordsworth

  Kindness, Shadow, Sun

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.117

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• The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.

  F.B. Meyer

  Rivers, Water, Amazon

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• I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy.

  Art Buchwald

  Reality, Accepting, Worst

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• You may wear your virtues as a crown,
  As you walk through life serenely,
  And grace your simple rustic gown
  With a beauty more than queenly.
  Though only one for you shall care,
  One only speak your praises;
  And you never wear in your shining hair,
  A richer flower than daisies.

  Phoebe Cary

  Flower, Simple, Hair

  Phoebe Cary (1882). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.

  Sara Coleridge

  Sweet, Feet, April

  Sara Coleridge (1839). “Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme”, p.7

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• Look out! He's got a daisy!

  Terry Pratchett

  Looks

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Making Money: (Discworld Novel 36)”, p.417, Random House

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• Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.

  Anne Sexton

  Bruises, Language, Be Careful

  Anne Sexton, “Words”

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• Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough?

  John Marin

  Flower, Bully, Littles

  John Marin (1949). “Selected Writings”

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• Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do! I'm half crazy, all for the love of you! It won't be a stylish marriage I can't afford a carriage But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two!

  Harry Dacre

  Love, Sweet, Crazy

  "Daisy Bell" (song) (1892)

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